gt;> site-packages directory during make install.
>
>Oops. Dave, -root "" makes it fail. -root "/" works, however,
Please check if this problem is now fixed.
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won't break. My preference, therefore, is to add a
flag to indicate this state. Unless anyone objects, I'll go ahead and do this.
>(I guess the issue is the same for all "unreadable" messages).
Yes, although, strictly speaking, the core could (and probably should
g
left and right. With a changed algorithm it might look a little odd if the
word whereon the cursor is changes state when toggling cursor visibility.
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evision in which your problem begins to occur so that we can know which
exact code change is causing it?
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increased in size. It's important when upgrading to do a clean build each time.
If you want to reuse the same directory structure then my recommendation is as
follows:
cd /to/top/level/of/brltty/build/tree
make distclean
svn update
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and which kind of braille
display is being used?
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all of the cells as text cells,
driver-specific code for this can be removed, displays with no status cells
could have some, etc.
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actually a 3 cell display and a separate 40 cell display.
That's understood. It'd be up to the driver as to how it supports and
advertises each model. Even in the case of the Evolution, there are other
HandyTech models which have real status cells too.
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s intuitive as the ones God created within ourselves, makes a few guesses
until it gets it right.
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[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2007/04/30 at 10:38 -0400]
>There should be no u in nonesuch:
Fixed.
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[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2007/04/30 at 10:21 -0400]
>The o-u sign in thought is written backwards so it comes out as a t.
Fixed.
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u get the message "braille driver restarted", but the prompt gets
>appended to that message.
>What may cause this?
This would be a Ubuntu problem as that's one of their scripts. I don't have a
Ubuntu system here so I can't look into it. If you send me a copy
[quoted lines by Hermann on 2007/04/30 at 17:33 +0200]
>The script is attached.
I'm sorry, but I can't tell from the script alone. It invokes some shell
functions which it gets from some other place. Perhaps you should report the
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to a
fixed-length field to store the version number?
Do you think there's any reason to retain the current driver version numbers?
They aren't really being maintained properly anyway (finger pointing at
myself). Maybe we should just store brltty's version in that already-exist
uce a reliable
revision number? For checked out source I'd use the svnversion command, but, of
course, that doesn't work for exported source.
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the version without the subversion revision.
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tor of memory corruption, the most
likely candidate being that the same block has been freed twice. Can you run
brltty with a tool that audits malloc()s and free()s and cause the crash?
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[quoted lines by Jason White on 2007/05/04 at 10:16 +1000]
>Which tool would you recommend? Valgrind has been
>discussed here before as generating false positives. There is also electric
>fence, and doubtless there are others.
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of the menu. Also you have to redefine the blink rate.
>I think the prefs file is not correctly saved under Windows.
Thanks. Please retest with the latest revision.
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[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2007/05/07 at 10:39 +0200]
>Good, Dave, could you please apply it?
I think we should ask Lee to try it out with JAWS also first.
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re's a way to configure them so that they behave the same way.
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so doesn't try to reclaim the
display until the keys are released. Our problem, therefore, may be that brltty
polls so it doesn't end up closing the device fast enough at least some of the
time. Can the Windows screen driver define a callback which we can then use to
interrupt the ma
n a long time since I've asked for it to be tested.
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[quoted lines by Jason White on 2007/05/09 at 10:41 +1000]
>Electric fence gives interesting results (BRLTTY 3.8-dev, x86_64, core file
>generated on startup with electric fence dynamically linked in).
Samuel found the problem. Please retest with the latest revision.
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ppercase) option to remove the
complexity of BrlAPI from the picture.
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from this line:
INSTALL_PROGRAM = $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) -s
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latest code in your normal environments to see if it still happens?
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e know if these work with brltty?
Brltty hasn't been tested with a VarioConnect yet. It probably does work with
them, though, unless Baum has made a significant change to its protocol. If it
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ld be useful to include it in 3.8 for possibly wider
>testing?
It's been added to brltty's source tree as "text.fr-2007.tbl".
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where the cursor was off
the right end of the braille display while you were using contracted braille.
Perhaps you should check with the older revision to try to get a reproduceable
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>cursor should occupy, the cursor is not presented.
Thanks. Please retest with the latest revision.
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and posted, so this was indeed a repost. That's okay, though.
If the original didn't get back to you then maybe it didn't get to some others
either.
Another couple of updates have been made. Could you please retest.
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[quoted lines by Sérgio Neves on 2007/05/16 at 18:46 +0100]
>In attatch I send the portuguese (Portugal) braille table.
Thank you. It's been added to the source repository.
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n packet: 42 and 16 Unknown byte messages.
This is a known problem. It seems to afflict USB connections. It's cause hasn't
been tracked down yet but brltty deals with it. It has to do with initial bytes
missing from the first packet sent by the display.
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[quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2007/05/16 at 22:21 +0200]
>The locale-gen command is not provided on the Fedora system. Do you
>know of an equivalent?
What does locale-gen do?
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the rightmost character up to
and including where the cursor is? If so, this may be an expected symptom of
the contiguous blank compression that the contraction table does. Please test
it with the cursor on or beyond the first non-blank character past the right
end of the braille display.
-
[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2007/05/17 at 02:36 +0200]
>Regenerate the locales whose list is given in /etc/locale.gen
That file doesn't exist either. What's the purpose of that list, and why would
you want to regenerate a locale?
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e line - cursor is on
>cell 39 of my 40-cell display. Now advance the window, and the cursor
>correctly appears after the final character on the line.
Please give the latest revision a try.
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This is a test message to verify a bit of reconfiguration here.
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ackle, and then there's the boring and labour intensive job of
composing some kind of meaningful change log.
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a normal def, and make it simpler. The warning is gone afterwards,
This patch has now been applied.
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change log and just release what we have today as 3.8?
What do you all think of that?
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read that stuff. :-) Those who are waiting for
3.8 already know what's in it.
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I put the rest of my life on
immediate hold.
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I'll put some time into the 3.8 change log. Please, as a couple of you have
already done, keep sending me notes about items you think should be included in
order to ensure that I don't miss them.
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order to
verify that your model is correctly supported?
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g. speech, to bring up a Linux system, and
then build brltty in a temporary place for testing?
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tes:
The autogen.sh script has been renamed to autogen.
Add support for a relocatable install (useful on Windows).
Change the default for gpm support to enabled.
Define general macros for braille applications in
"/usr/include/iso_11548-1.h".
Add the --with-stderr-path configu
ll this time.
>
>Or instead of "on Windows" you could say specifically what it's for (msys?)
>since brltty won't work on "windows" as such.
What goes wrong on Cygwin when a relocatable install is used?
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g to let anything else
delay that. After we decide that the change log is okay, I just need to decide
whether or not tweaking the manual is a requirement. If we can decide all of
that today, and if I stay up late tonight or put in a bit of work tomorrow, 3.8
should be out shortly after the weekend.
installed on Cygwin relocatably, though, the feature should
still work.
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cify something like
--prefix=/opt/brltty, then build and install it there, and then move that whole
structure to some radically different location.
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ure which directory the executing program is in. That, of course, isn't
usually a problem on Linux (i.e. if /proc is mounted), and wouldn't be a
problem on Cygwin (since the Windows API is used).
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n this one, of course), these days, should this
be announced on?
Should the announcement include the change log (which is about a hundred
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cify -t cz for the Czech table.
>gives series of error
>mesages saying something about denial of access to screen content.
These would be unrelated to table specification. My guess is that you're
starting brltty as a regular user rather than as root.
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at it, it'll probably say the number 2. Try using echo
to write 0 into it.
echo 0 >autosuspend
With that change made, please see if you're then able to get your device to
work. Remember that unplugging/replugging your device will undo the change.
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d", when you first started brltty after that, or when?
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Would users of other (non-Baum) USB braille displays who've used a Debian or
Fedora 2.6.21 kernel please confirm if they do or don't have a problem?
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ve to check to be sure,
but I think I do this with set sleep_time=1.
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ething, however, I find that I much prefer
the whiz wheels of the Freedom Scientific displays. They allow the user to
scroll the display rather intuitively.
The new HandyTech Evolution displays support finger pressure detection, and
brltty already has a hook for this. It might be int
index_format.
The subject is specified by %s. While you can specify an explicit width by
placing an integer between the two character, e.g. %20s, I don't believe the
field can be set to wrap.
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rface itself is fully up once the resume completes but that the
rest of the circuitry, i.e. the stuff behind the USB interface, takes a bit
more time to come to life. The Baum driver has now been recoded to accommodate
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Could anyone who's using a Brailliant or SuperVario via either serial or
Bluetooth please give the latest code in the repository a try? Thanks.
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You can read the help page by pressing dots one, two, and five together (the
letter h).
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ets in
BrailleDrivers/Baum/braille.c to 1 in order to get yet more logging.
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asn't there yet then brltty would create
it, if usbfs wasn't mounted yet then brltty mounted it, etc. My question is:
Should brltty keep on doing this as well, or should the resource creation code
be considered a past work-around and removed?
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could be sensibly represented by an as yet unused single letter.
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ting. Questions:
Is giving one option two meanings a bad idea in this case as it often is in
other cases?
What if a default writable directory has been established and then the user
wishes to disable it?
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The USB autosuspend problem which Baum displays have been suffering from
starting with the 2.6.21 kernel has been fixed. Would anyone who's been
experiencing this problem please retest with the latest source in brltty's
repository.
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ion, should the user disable the
feature if, say, a default directory has been specified at configure time or
via brltty.conf?
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would do it, and, in fact, would be
portable.
>Notwithstanding the above, I agree that this feature may be more difficult to
>implement than it is worth. Thus my comments should not be taken as an
>argument for implementing it.
That's how I feel about it.
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>- are ETIMEDOUT and EAGAIN really non-recoverable errors?
Not necessarily. This may be an oversight. Which piece of code are you
referring to?
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So we have a bit of a problem. EAGAIN indeed is recoverable, and so is
ETIMEDOUT. The problem is that we can't make ETIMEDOUT recoverable if we don't
know its value.
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to?
We could make our libusb support code lie by returning EAGAIN instead. :-(
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can. What's the problem, do you think?
That message implies that the "bluetooth:" device qualifier isn't being
recognized. Did you verify (or can you reverify) that the output at the end of
the configure says that Bluetooth support is enabled?
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if you want to specify a directory. For example:
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
The configure script would be looking for -lXaw because it found the headers
for that package. I don't know how bsd systems work, but perhaps you have the
development package but not the run-time package for it.
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time you start brltty? If so, that's expected
because Linux will have suspended it. As long as you don't disconnect the
device it shouldn't do it after the first time. Can you please verify this?
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ht you be able to collect some logs so that the problem can
be analyzed, and, hopefully, resolved?
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>to update my system to see if anything changed wrt to this issue.
I understand. Any data you can provide to help get this type of problem
resolved would be greatly appreciated.
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re only getting a short delay when holding the bar then it's due either to
the initial autorepeat delay or to not knowing if you're going to let the bar
go or move it to its second position. If the delay is long or if you're even
geteting a delay after letting go of the bar th
ebug so as to collect more logs. We'll
certainly have a look at any logs you send us.
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, since brltty knows
to steal the device from the kernel driver which has claimed it.
>So I'd think that there is actually a converter in the
>device itself.
Yes, there is. Papenmeier, like many other braille display manufacturers,
continues to use their well-tested serial interface an
enu and turn off "Window Follows
Pointer" (remember to save the rpeferences to make the change persistent).
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e problem, you shouldn't be encountering it anyway if gpm really is running.
That's why I'd like to be really sure that it is running.
Also, which release of brltty are you using?
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t;Is there any more verbose logging I can turn on to see what's causing this
>error?
You can try running brltty with -ldebug.
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27;t make any use of it, just
>to get rid of those messages.
Turning off the preference (perhaps it should be off by default) should stop
the messages. If it doesn't then that's a bug.
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[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/08/22 at 11:40 -0400]
>Also, I have "Window Follows Pointer" and "Highlight Window" set to
>"no", so in theory BRLTTY should not even try to open any GPM device,
>right?
Please retest with the latest revision
[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/08/22 at 17:46 -0400]
>It is better. But if you happen to turn "Window Follows Pointer" on
>and back off then the message flood starts again.
Thanks. Please retest.
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;m using brltty -b bm -d USB as my runtime command, is this correct?
Not quite. You need to specify usb: (the trailing colon is important).
Also, are you using the usb port directly or are you using a usb to serial
adapter? The -d usb: syntax is for using the port directly.
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s made to connect to GPM when it's off.
I think we still have a mystery on your system, though, i.e. why it wouldn't
connect to the running gpm. That's something I'd really like to know the answer
to.
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g. :-)
>Aug 23 22:29:40 orchid brltty[1434]: cannot open device: /dev/vcsa:
>Permission denied
This message indicates that you're probably invoking brltty as a regular user
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rltty ..., is the command you
want to trace (where ... means whatever brltty options you want to specify).
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rience with LFS.
Now it's my turn to ask a dumb question: Are we sure that that LFS boot image
has brltty on it?
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problem, as I recall, is an invalid ioctl() argument, whereas I,
perhaps wrongly, thought you were getting no such file or directory.
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o.
Or the new (not quite released yet) brltty, which will also not try to
communicate with gpm if Window Follows Pointer is off. It should be released
fairly soon, now, although, of course, I'm not sure how quickly GenToo will
pick it up.
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ou'd like to give that a try, let me know and I'll
tell you hnow to do it. That's what I do here for all my other systems since it
means that I don't have to reconnect my braille display, and, therefore, I can
keep on working while the install is running in a different window.
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d it work
>reguardless. If so, what table should i put. I would want US english but
>don't know the table code for that.
I'd say that you shouldn't need it. If you'd like to give it a try, though,
then, for US English, use en_US (note that en is in lowercase but US is in
upp
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